A Dream of Flight: Alberto Santos-Dumont's Race Around the Eiffel Tower by Rob Polivka

#cbr11bingo #TrueStory A Dream of Flight: Alberto Santos-Dumont’s Race Around the Eiffel Tower is one of those powerful books that gives you a piece of history you might not be familiar with. Though not an all-encompassing/text-book look, it is a complete and general look at the history of flight in its early years. And it also gives you the story of one person who did much to get it to what we know as aviation today. Years before the Wright Brothers, a young Brazilian man-made history by trying, failing, trying again, failing, until he finally got it right and was able […]

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